Rocky Mound, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRocky Mound grew from 75 to 78 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 75 | |
| 2020 | 78 | +3 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
438 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Mound between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,643 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 277 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 69 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4114 |
| 8 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1085 FM 1520 |
| 8 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1342 |
| 8 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 48 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6300 |
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODLAND HARBOR |
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 556 |
| 5 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4114 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macedonia | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Pittsburg | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Leesburg | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Harvard | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Pecan Heights | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hickory Hill | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Hill | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Crossroads | 6.8 miles | 12 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Rocky Mound | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978411 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1345481. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.




